write the chemical reaction of saponificarion and a reaction to from alcohol
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Saponification. Esters can be cleaved back into a carboxylic acid and an alcoholby reaction with water and a base. The reaction is called a saponification from the Latin sapo which means soap. The name comes from the fact that soap used to me made by the ester hydrolysis of fats
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